6 d. ago ‘I had no voice’: black mental health patients on surviving a care system they say is racialised

As a report into mental health care in England finds a sharp increase in people sent for urgent care, two people tell their traumatic stories of being hospitalisedAdult mental health crisis referrals in England double in a yearIt has been more than four decades since Devon Marston, a 66-year-old community organiser and musician, was taken to a psychiatric hospital where he was restrained, injected and forced to take medication. He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.“Everything was said around me and about me, but no one asked me how I was doing,” he said. “I had no voice, and there was no one to say: ‘Don’t do that to him,’ or: ‘Listen to him, hear what he has to say.’” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Slender Man stabber’s conditional release approved by judge despite new concerns from psychiatric hospital

Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier were 12 years old in 2014 when they lured classmate Payton Leutner to a Wisconsin park and stabbed her 19 times in the name of Slender Man

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1 week ago Judge approves Slender Man stabber’s conditional release despite new concerns from psychiatric hospital

Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier were 12 years old in 2014 when they lured classmate Payton Leutner to a Wisconsin park and stabbed her 19 times in the name of Slender Man

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1 week ago Man, 37, who killed his elderly mother with a crossbow 'because of the devil' is sent to secure psychiatric hospital

A man who killed his own mother with a crossbow 'because of the devil' has been sent to a secure psychiatric hospital.

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3 w. ago Son of 'extremely wealthy' Chelsea art collector sentenced to indefinite detention in secure psychiatric hospital for 'vicious and brutal' knife attack on family's live

Maximillian Bourne, 26, stabbed Joselia Pereira Do Nascimento multiple times at his family's £20million five-bedroom home in Chelsea, west London, on February 25 last year.

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3 w. ago Technician at psychiatric hospital accused of raping drugged patient multiple times

Jeff Doresca, 37, allegedly attacked the patient while she was under the influence of her medications

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